ROMANTIC OPERAS: Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi, Massenet (14CD)

The World’s Most Romantic Operas

Format: 14 CD Box Set • Mono/Stereo • Historic Live Recordings

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

• Orfeo: Shirley Verrett

• Euridice: Antonietta Stella

• Amore: Mariella Adani

• RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Turin / Seiji Ozawa

• Live performance: Turin, June 30, 1970

Beethoven: Fidelio

• Leonore: Christa Ludwig

• Florestan: James King

• Marzelline: Edith Mathis

• Don Fernando: Hans Hotter

• Rocco: Franz Crass

• Pizarro: Ingvar Wixell

• Jaquino: Donald Grobe

• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna State Opera Chorus / Karl Böhm

• Live performance: Salzburg, 1969

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

• Adina: Renata Scotto

• Nemorino: Carlo Bergonzi

• Belcore: Giuseppe Taddei

• Dulcamara: Carlo Cava

• Giannetta: Renza Jotti

• Orchestra & Chorus of the Florence May Festival / Gianandrea Gavazzeni

• Live performance: Florence, 1967

Verdi: La traviata

• Violetta Valéry: Renata Scotto

• Alfredo Germont: José Carreras

• Giorgio Germont: Sesto Bruscantini

• Annina: Anna Pedrotti

• Baron Douphol: Guido Mazzini

• Gastone: Fernando Jacopucci

• Orchestra & Chorus / Nino Verchi

• Live performance: Tokyo, September 18, 1973

Massenet: Manon

• Manon: Mirella Freni

• Des Grieux: Luciano Pavarotti

• Lescaut: Rolando Panerai

• Count Des Grieux: Antonio Zerbini

• Guillot: Franco Ricciardi

• Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan / Peter Maag

• Live performance: Milan, June 3, 1969

Puccini: La bohème

• Mimì: Mirella Freni

• Rodolfo: Luciano Pavarotti

• Musetta: Rita Talarico

• Marcello: Sesto Bruscantini

• Colline: Nicolai Ghiuselev

• Schaunard: Gianni Maffeo

• RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of Rome / Thomas Schippers

• Live performance: Rome, July 17, 1969

Giordano: Andrea Chénier

• Andrea Chénier: Franco Corelli

• Maddalena: Renata Tebaldi

• Carlo Gérard: Ettore Bastianini

• Bersi: Margareta Sjostedt

• Countess di Coigny: Elisabeth Hongen

• Madelon: Hilde Konetzni

• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna State Opera Chorus / Lovro von Matačić

• Live performance: Vienna, June 26, 1960